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Posts tagged with 'StanleyCup' at MetaFilter.Tue, 14 May 2013 21:19:56 -0800Tue, 14 May 2013 21:19:56 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60Hockey is violent grace, or sometimes just silly.http://www.metafilter.com/128084/Hockey%2Dis%2Dviolent%2Dgrace%2Dor%2Dsometimes%2Djust%2Dsilly
<a href="http://hfboards.hockeysfuture.com/showthread.php?t=1427891">Kings and Sharks Dance Offs</a> started when both teams first met in the playoffs. It took over the series talk thread and Game Day Threads until it got it's own thread. Since then, it has become a tradition. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.128084Tue, 14 May 2013 21:19:56 -0800blob"In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened."http://www.metafilter.com/116903/In%2Da%2Dyear%2Dthat%2Dhas%2Dbeen%2Dso%2Dimprobable%2Dthe%2Dimpossible%2Dhas%2Dhappened
The Los Angeles Kings <a href="http://kings.nhl.com/club/recap.htm?id=2011030416&navid=DL|LAK|home">won the Stanley Cup</a> on Monday night. This morning, a local radio station (KSPN 710 AM) had on the team's hall-of-fame announcer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Miller_%28sports_announcer%29">Bob Miller</a> to be interviewed and take calls. A certain special caller turned out to be another hall-of-famer -- long-time Los Angeles Dodgers baseball announcer, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin_Scully">Vin Scully</a>, who has been with his team for over 60 years. <a href="http://espn.go.com/espnradio/losangeles/play?id=8044545">The audio is special.</a> The only thing missing, as they mention, would have been the Los Angeles Lakers' hall-of-fame announcer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_Hearn">Chick Hearn</a>, who passed away in 2002. I think the picture of the three of them that Scully and Miller discuss is <a href="http://mlblogsdodgersphotog.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/hof.jpg">this one</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.116903Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:38:18 -0800Celsius14141,564 games later.http://www.metafilter.com/116509/1564%2Dgames%2Dlater
<a href="http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/7992417/detroit-red-wings-nicklas-lidstrom-retires-20-seasons">I've been dreading this day since I became manager in 1997,</a>" Red Wings general manager Ken Holland said. This day, today, Detroit Red Wings captain Nicklas Lidstrom <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilqv_UZbGDI">retired from the game of professional hockey</a> after 20 NHL seasons. Lidstrom is considered to be one of the best defenseman ever to play the game. Many speculated that the seemingly ageless Lidstrom, now 42, would return for another season.
"<a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20120531/SPORTS05/120531022/Red-Wings-Nicklas-Lidstrom-comfortable-decision-retire">I felt a relief once I made the decision,</a>" Lidstrom said. "This year, it's painfully obvious to me my strength and energy level are not rebounding. My drive and motivation is not where it needs to be to play at this level. It's been a great ride."
From the <a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20120531/SPORTS05/120531033/Mike-Ilitch-Red-Wings-Nicklas-Lidstrom-We-re-not-going-see-anybody-like-him-again-">Detroit Free Press</a>:
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Team owner Mike Illitch called today, “one of the most emotional days in Red Wings history.” He called Lidstrom “a Rock of Gibraltar” and marveled that, for 20 years, there never was an off-ice misstep, never an embarrassment and he always was the epitome of class. “There were no variations,” Ilitch said.
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It is for this reason, among others, that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicklas_Lidstrom">Lidstrom</a> is jokingly referred to as “The Perfect Human.” His <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qK0YDGx-V8">stellar career</a>, all with the Red Wings, includes 20 straight playoff apperances, 4 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtZSPHMDKg8&feature=related">Stanley Cups</a>, 7 Norris Trophies (for best defenseman), 1 Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP, and 11 NHL All-Star game appearances. And oh, yeah, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yphUl_FTSA&feature=related">a gold medal too</a>.
<a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20120531/COL01/205310547/Mitch-Albom-Red-Wings-Nicklas-Lidstrom-one-ages">Mitch Albom</a> weighs in with a nice retrospective on Nick's career: (warning: Mitch Albom)
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How good was Lidstrom? Seven Norris Trophies for best defenseman. Four Stanley Cups. An Olympic gold. A world championship.
How good? On the 2002 Red Wings, maybe the greatest group of talent ever assembled on one roster, he was the guy who won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the MVP of the playoffs.
How good? In his first season, as a rookie, he played 80 games; it was like he sprung from the womb as an All-Star.
How good? Until this season, he never played fewer than 76 games in a full regular season. And six times he played every game.
How good? When Steve Yzerman was at his peak, he would constantly refer to Lidstrom as "the best player on the team."
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For Red Wings GM Ken Holland and coach Mike Babcock, <a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20120531/COL08/120531050/Drew-Sharp-Without-Lidstrom-Holland-faces-his-greatest-challenge">the future looms large.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.116509Thu, 31 May 2012 17:35:10 -0800kbanasStanley Cup-winning Boston Bruins goaltender and Free Citizen Tim Thomas skips White House dinnerhttp://www.metafilter.com/111989/Stanley%2DCupwinning%2DBoston%2DBruins%2Dgoaltender%2Dand%2DFree%2DCitizen%2DTim%2DThomas%2Dskips%2DWhite%2DHouse%2Ddinner
One of only two American players on the 2010/2011 Boston Bruins team, goaltender Tim Thomas skipped a White House event to honor the team's Stanley Cup championship victory <a href="http://sports.nationalpost.com/2012/01/23/bruins-tim-thomas-declines-to-visit-white-house/">for political reasons</a>. <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/bruins-mvp-tim-thomas-skips-white-house-event-203636656.html">Reactions</a> have been <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2012/0124/Tim-Thomas-and-the-Obama-snub-free-speech-or-impolitic-politics-video">numerous</a> and <a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/Thomas+Obama+able+behaviour+skewered+Boston+columnists/6044314/story.html">mixed</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.111989Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:12:58 -0800HoopoMy name is Johnny Canuckhttp://www.metafilter.com/104390/My%2Dname%2Dis%2DJohnny%2DCanuck
"A <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/MynameisJohnnyCanuck">short film</a> chronicling the legendary Johnny Canuck, his years of triumph and turmoil, and how they mirror the history of the Vancouver Canucks franchise and their Stanley Cup run in 2010-2011." [SLYT] Keep the faith, Vancouver fans. tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.104390Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:59:48 -0800Felicity Rilkemissing puck spotted, still losthttp://www.metafilter.com/104380/missing%2Dpuck%2Dspotted%2Dstill%2Dlost
The search for the puck that scored the Stanley Cup winning goal last year <a href='http://www.metafilter.com/102939/Pssst-Theres-a-plate-missing-a-clue-over-at-Cloud-Gate'>(previously)</a> finds new hard evidence that linesman Steve Miller <a href='http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/hockey/blackhawks/ct-spt-0608-stanley-cup-puck-blackhaw20110607,0,6461285.story'>picked it up</a>. The hall of fame is <a href='http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/hockey/blackhawks/ct-spt-0609-blackhawks-puck-chicago--20110608,0,6371513.story'>calling for changes</a> to ensure this doesn't happen again. And as two storied franchises <a href='http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=565032'>fight</a> for their first Cups in quit a while, Steve Miller is <a href='http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nhl/news/story?id=6452071'>on the ice again</a>, a linesman for games 1 and 3 of the finals so far. tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.104380Thu, 09 Jun 2011 09:59:32 -0800jermsplanThe BQSTQN BRUINS! The NEW YORK ILANDERS!http://www.metafilter.com/82248/The%2DBQSTQN%2DBRUINS%2DThe%2DNEW%2DYORK%2DILANDERS
<a href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Sports/Stanley+mysteries+etched+into+history/1644908/story.html">"For as long as there is a Stanley Cup, famed hockey executive Frank J. Selke will be the "ass man."</a> tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.82248Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:33:37 -0800The Card CheatFifty Mission Cap Reduxehttp://www.metafilter.com/27142/Fifty%2DMission%2DCap%2DReduxe
<a href="http://barilko.penaltybox.com/">Bill Barilko</a> immortalized by <a href="http://www.thehip.com/">The Hip</a> in the song <a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?q=fifty+mission+cap&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=4ngcr9%24584%40tuzo.erin&rnum=1">Fifty Mission Cap</a> won the cup for the leafs in 1951. Later that summer, he disappeared in a plane crash north of Cochrane, Ontario. In an ironic twist of fate, the Maple Leafs did not win another Stanley Cup until 1962, the same year that his remains were finally found.
<a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/hockey/news/2003/07/21/body_found_ap/">Now</a>, The body of a former NHL first-round draft pick who disappeared in Austria almost 14 years ago has been found frozen in the Alps. Someone tell <a href="http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/thismorning/sites/a&e/downie_010321.html">Gord</a>, maybe he can get a new song out of this. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.27142Tue, 22 Jul 2003 06:27:48 -0800BlakeOh Yes! Hockey season is here again.http://www.metafilter.com/20968/Oh%2DYes%2DHockey%2Dseason%2Dis%2Dhere%2Dagain
<a href="http://www.hockeypundits.com">Oh Yes! Hockey season is here again.</a> Came across a few good Blogs with a hockey theme. <a href="http://www.hockeypundits.com">The Hockey Pundits</a>, <a href="http://www.goaliegirl.com/index.shtml">Goalie Girl</a>, <a href="http://puckhog.blogspot.com">Puck Hog</a>, <a href="http://offwing.blogspot.com">Off Wing</a>, <a href="http://www.puckupdate.com">Puck Update</a> tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.20968Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:22:32 -0800rampageHockey, Schmockey, let's just shake hands.http://www.metafilter.com/10659/Hockey%2DSchmockey%2Dlets%2Djust%2Dshake%2Dhands
<a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/hockey/nhl/news/2001/09/20/flyers_president_ap/">Hockey, Schmockey, let's just shake hands.</a> I'm not a hockey fan, but I do appreciate the fact that our country seems to be re-examining what is truly important in life at every turn, both in groups and on a personal level. tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.10659Fri, 21 Sep 2001 05:21:11 -0800machausAV'S WIN THE CUP!!! http://www.metafilter.com/8189/AVS%2DWIN%2DTHE%2DCUP
<a href="http://www.nhl.com/cupcrazy2001/index.html">AV'S WIN THE CUP!!! </a> <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/hockey/nhl/2001/playoffs/news/2001/06/09/bourque_cup_ap/">Bourque finally hoists it over his head.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.8189Sat, 09 Jun 2001 21:41:08 -0800crasspastor